president obama and vice- president joe biden attending. we will have coverage on c-span3 starting around 9:45 a.m. eastern time. so look for that. back in our studio in washington we are joined by susan ferrechio, chief congressional correspondent with the washington examiner. and richard stevenson, chief washington correspondent with the new york times. welcome to both of you. richard, where does the president stand politically heading into this second term? guest: there are two ways to answer that question. one is we saw yesterday in his second inaugural speech that this is a thiswho feels very much unbound by politics. he does not face reelection any longer. the weight of the expectations that greeted him the first time argon. more importantly, this is a guy who has decided to go out and argue a liberal agenda, i think. that is the starting place for pretty much everything we will see for the rest of this year. host: susan? guest: i agree with you completely about that. i also got what was really unique about his speech yesterday, it wa